GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
At a late meeting held at Montreal of the British Association fertile Advancement of +Science, Sir Richard Temple, as the President of the Economic Science and Statistics Section, spoke in his address on the " General Statistics of the British Empire." In the course of his address he allowed : — That the Empire already includes onefifth of the habitable globe. That the whole Hindoo race is subject, to the British Crown. That in regard to steamers, the empire surpasses all other nations put together in numbers, and nearly equals them all put together, in sailing vessels. T .at the Etrpire owns one- third of the entire trade of the world. That 89 per cent of the capital and deposits of the world Msed in banking belongs to the empire. ; . That .British manufactures form one-thij-d of those of all Europe put tog I her. That the wealth of^- th° Empire stands »t tiie iucpuceivable total of
£12,040,000,000 showing the British to he " the richest state on the faco of the earth."
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 102, 16 May 1885, Page 7
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174GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 102, 16 May 1885, Page 7
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